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Requirements

• VMware Server 2.x RPM installation file
• VMware Server 2.x serial number

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• - These instructions assume the VMware Server RPM has been downloaded to

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• the following location on the management node:
  /root/VMware-server-2.0.2-203138.x86_64.rpm

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• VMware Server 2.x serial number - A serial number can be obtained by registering at vmware.com

Assumptions

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• These instructions assume you are logged in to the management node as root

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• These instructions assume you are using a bash shell.

Networking

The instructions assume the management node has 2 network interfaces:

• eth0 - connected to the private VCL network
• eth1 - connected to the public network

Install VCL Components

Begin by completing the VCL 2.2.1 Installation instructions. Install all of the components on the same computer.

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• Do you accept? (yes/no) yes
• Do you want networking for your virtual machines? (yes/no/help) yes
  • Configuring a bridged network for vmnet0. Please specify a name for this network. Bridged
  • Your computer has multiple ethernet network interfaces available: eth0, eth1. Which one do you want to bridge to vmnet0? eth0 eth1
    The following bridged networks have been defined:
    . vmnet0 is bridged to eth0eth1
  • Do you wish to configure another bridged network? (yes/no) no
  • Do you want to be able to use NAT networking in your virtual machines? (yes/no) no
  • Do you want to be able to use host-only networking in your virtual machines? yes
  • Configuring a host-only network for vmnet1. Please specify a name for this network. HostOnly
  • Do you want this program to probe for an unused private subnet? (yes/no/help) no
  • What will be the IP address of your host on the private network? 192.168.0.1
  • What will be the netmask of your private network? 255.255.0.0
    The following host-only networks have been defined:
    . vmnet1 is a host-only network on private subnet 192.168.0.0.
  • Do you wish to configure another host-only network? (yes/no) no
• Please specify a port for remote connections to use: 902
• Please specify a port for standard http connections to use: 8222
• Please specify a port for secure http (https) connections to use: 8333
• The current administrative user for VMware Server  is ''.  Would you like to specify a different administrator? no
  Using root as the VMware Server administrator.
• In which directory do you want to keep your virtual machine files? /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines
• The path "/var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines" does not exist currently. This program is going to create it, including needed parent directories. Is this what you want? yes
• Please enter your 20-character serial number. <Enter the serial number you received from VMware>
• In which directory do you want to install the VMware VIX API binary files? /usr/bin
• In which directory do you want to install the VMware VIX API library files? /usr/lib/vmware-vix/lib
• The path "/usr/lib/vmware-vix/lib" does not exist currently. This program is going to create it, including needed parent directories. Is this what you want? yes
• In which directory do you want to install the VMware VIX API document pages? /usr/share/doc/vmware-vix
• The path "/usr/share/doc/vmware-vix" does not exist currently. This program is going to create it, including needed parent directories. Is this what you want? yes

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